- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.
- Household dust is made of dead skin cells.
- Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
- A garfish has green bones.
- Banana trees are actually herbs.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.
- Hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes.
- No number from one to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.
- When a member of a whale group is sick or injured, other whales will push it up to the surface of the water to help it breathe.
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